Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

We all fear change, even as we seek it.